Analog Photography at its Best

William Eggleston

Eggleston's mature work is characterized by its ordinary subject-matter. As Eudora Welty noted in her introduction to The Democratic Forest, an Eggleston photograph might include "old tyres, Dr Pepper machines, discarded air-conditioners, vending machines, empty and dirty Coca-Cola bottles, torn posters, power poles and power wires, street barricades, one-way signs, detour signs, No Parking signs, parking meters and palm trees crowding the same curb."

Eudora Welty suggests that Eggleston sees the complexity and beauty of the mundane world: "The extraordinary, compelling, honest, beautiful and unsparing photographs all have to do with the quality of our lives in the ongoing world: they succeed in showing us the grain of the present, like the cross-section of a tree.... They focus on the mundane world. But no subject is fuller of implications than the mundane world!" -- from Wikipedia quoting Eudora Welty in [Eggleston's] Artistic Development].

Younger William Eggleston with one of his many Leicas. See frame 7:56 of Part II.

 

 

Red Ceiling, Greenwood, Mississippi, circa 1969

 

Untitled [girl on grass] 1975

 

Algiers, Louisiana, 1972

The Guardian [UK] ran a photo of just the dog in one of its pieces about Eggleston.

 

Untitled, date unknown

 

Untitled, date unknown

 

Links:

http://www.egglestontrust.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGR6_H-G17c

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/photography-blog/2013/apr/05/william-eggleston-outstanding-contribution-photography

http://www.photoforager.com/archives/william-eggleston-the-father-of-colour

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/nov/05/william-eggleston-democratic-camera-review

http://pleasurephoto.wordpress.com/tag/william-eggleston/page/5/

Riccardo Boldorini -- Sex

Riccardo Boldorini was born in Milano, Italy, in 1971. He began his career in 1992  and has continued with exhibits every year until the present. You can read about his dynamic professional life at this link. I will just add that I was overwhelmed by his talent and imagination upon seeing his photos for the very first time. I think it is only appropriate that I simply upload many of my favorites and let you explore his website to discover more. Click on images to enlarge them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Riccardo Boldorini -- Cities

Riccardo Boldorini was born in Milano, Italy, in 1971. He began his career in 1992  and has continued with exhibits every year until the present. You can read about his dynamic professional life at this link. I will just add that I was overwhelmed by his talent and imagination upon seeing his photos for the very first time. I think it is only appropriate that I simply upload many of my favorites and let you explore his website to discover more. Click on images to enlarge them.

Cities

Milano

Paris

Tokyo

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Sex

Riccardo Boldorini

Riccardo Boldorini was born in Milano, Italy, in 1971. He began his career in 1992  and has continued with exhibits every year until the present. You can read about his dynamic professional life at this link. I will just add that I was overwhelmed by his talent and imagination upon seeing his photos for the very first time. I think it is only appropriate that I simply upload many of my favorites and let you explore his website to discover more. Click on images to enlarge them.

Flowers

 Photos were taken with a Nikon FM2 on Kodachrome

More coming next . . .

Wingate Paine

I can't discuss the talent of Wingate Paine without referencing this disparagement of his work in a very recent Sam Haskins blog at this link. Neither Sam, nor Wingate, is no longer with us and can't speak for themselves. It's my opinion that the matter should be laid to rest, so I'll add my two cents and speak for the silent Wingate Paine. There is no plagiarism that I can see. (Just for the record I will add that my credentials include that of being a plaintive in a copyright infringement action against a very popular author-illustrator and her publisher. She swiped much of the contents of my Lighthouses book. After a long drawn-out procedure they wery eager to settle out of court.)  Plagiarism was definitely involved, but only copyright infringement is actionable in U.S. federal court. As an art director I would note only that some of Paine's photos are an hommage to Haskin's. That they both loved to pose young women is evident. With precious few exceptions, we can't help but be influenced by our peers.

Wingate Paine, Untitled, 1964-1965

Wingate Paine, Untitled, 1964-1965

 

Wingate Paine, Untitled, 1964-1965

 

Wingate Paine, Untitled, 1964-1965

 

Wingate Paine, Untitled, 1964-1965

 

Wingate Paine, Untitled, 1964-1965

 

Wingate Paine, Untitled, 1964-1965

 

Wingate Paine, Untitled, 1964-1965

 

Wingate Paine, Untitled 1964-1965

 

For more photos of Wingate Paine, please link to the Steven Kasher Gallery.

Wingate Paine, a Mayflower descendant, was born in 1915 to a New England family of lawyers, clergy and bankers.  He was a talented photographer, a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, and a devotee of Hatha Yoga. He was a spiritual teacher and author of: Tilling the Soul (Santa Fe: Aurora Press, 1984), and The Book of Surrender (New York: Prentice Hall, 1987). He departed this life in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1987.

He left a lucrative career as an advertising photographer to concentrate on his book of photos, Mirror of Venus (Random House, 1966) printed in four languages and ten editions. Many of the photographs above were pages in this book.